Word: lettvin
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...other members disagreed, and at least three have resigned from the society. M.I.T. Biologist Jerome Y. Lettvin complained bitterly: "You decided not to award him because you disap proved of the man but not his poetry. I will have no part of it." Pound wrote in Canto LXXXIII...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced it will not award its $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal this year. No reason was given, but one academician, M.I.T. Biologist Jerome Y. Lettvin, says that the group's literary committee recommended Ezra Pound, and that the governing council rejected him because of his anti-Semitic broadcasts for Italy during World War II. "Had you decided that Pound was an indifferent poet, and so deserved no prize," wrote Lettvin in his resignation, "then you would have no need to study his human failings. But you decided he was a good poet...
...rally, which was held on the Boston Common, started at 4:15 p. m. Speeches were given by Paul Coumings, a draft resister and anti-war activist; Ruth Lettvin of the Cambridge office of the Panther Defense Committee; and Kim Holland of the New Bedford Panthers...
...Lettvin also said that an Intercommunal Tribunal will be convened in Stockholm, Sweden in late. March to discuss Seale's trial...
...have to show that we're strong enough to prevent Bobby and Erika from being railroaded," Ruth Lettvin, spokesman for the Cambridge office of the Panther Defense Committee, said yesterday...